Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity as Re­v­erse Eng­ineer­ing (fol­low-up to “cars and elephants”)

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)3 Nov 2022 23:19 UTC
28 points
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[Question] Could a Supreme Court suit work to solve NEPA prob­lems?

ChristianKl3 Nov 2022 21:10 UTC
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[Video] How hav­ing Fast Fourier Trans­forms sooner could have helped with Nu­clear Disar­ma­ment—Veritasium

mako yass3 Nov 2022 21:04 UTC
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(www.youtube.com)

Fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tions on the Ev­i­den­tial­ist’s Wager

Martín Soto3 Nov 2022 20:06 UTC
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AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 6/​6: What can be done

PashaKamyshev3 Nov 2022 19:48 UTC
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A Mys­tery About High Di­men­sional Con­cept Encoding

Fabien Roger3 Nov 2022 17:05 UTC
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Why do we post our AI safety plans on the In­ter­net?

Peter S. Park3 Nov 2022 16:02 UTC
4 points
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Mul­ti­ple De­ploy-Key Repos

jefftk3 Nov 2022 15:10 UTC
15 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Covid 11/​3/​22: Ask­ing Forgiveness

Zvi3 Nov 2022 13:50 UTC
23 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ad­ver­sar­ial Poli­cies Beat Pro­fes­sional-Level Go AIs

sanxiyn3 Nov 2022 13:27 UTC
31 points
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(goattack.alignmentfund.org)

K-types vs T-types — what pri­ors do you have?

Cleo Nardo3 Nov 2022 11:29 UTC
74 points
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In­for­ma­tion Mar­kets 2: Op­ti­mally Shaped Re­ward Bets

eva_3 Nov 2022 11:08 UTC
9 points
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The Ra­tional Utili­tar­ian Love Move­ment (A His­tor­i­cal Ret­ro­spec­tive)

Caleb Biddulph3 Nov 2022 7:11 UTC
3 points
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(ratutilove.substack.com)

The Mir­ror Cham­ber: A short story ex­plor­ing the an­thropic mea­sure func­tion and why it can matter

mako yass3 Nov 2022 6:47 UTC
30 points
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Open Let­ter Against Reck­less Nu­clear Es­ca­la­tion and Use

Max Tegmark3 Nov 2022 5:34 UTC
27 points
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Lazy Python Ar­gu­ment Parsing

jefftk3 Nov 2022 2:20 UTC
20 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 5/​6: Re­la­tion­ship be­tween C-risk and X-risk

PashaKamyshev3 Nov 2022 2:19 UTC
2 points
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[Question] Is there a good way to award a fixed prize in a pre­dic­tion con­test?

jchan2 Nov 2022 21:37 UTC
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“Are Ex­per­i­ments Pos­si­ble?” Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbacon2 Nov 2022 20:05 UTC
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Hu­mans do acausal co­or­di­na­tion all the time

Adam Jermyn2 Nov 2022 14:40 UTC
57 points
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Far-UVC Light Up­date: No, LEDs are not around the cor­ner (tweet­storm)

Davidmanheim2 Nov 2022 12:57 UTC
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(twitter.com)

Hous­ing and Tran­sit Thoughts #1

Zvi2 Nov 2022 12:10 UTC
35 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mind is uncountable

Filip Sondej2 Nov 2022 11:51 UTC
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AI Safety Needs Great Product Builders

goodgravy2 Nov 2022 11:33 UTC
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Why is fiber good for you?

braces2 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC
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In­for­ma­tion Markets

eva_2 Nov 2022 1:24 UTC
46 points
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Se­quence Reread: Fake Beliefs [plus se­quence spotlight meta]

Raemon2 Nov 2022 0:09 UTC
27 points
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Real-Time Re­search Record­ing: Can a Trans­former Re-Derive Po­si­tional Info?

Neel Nanda1 Nov 2022 23:56 UTC
69 points
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(youtu.be)

All AGI Safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [~monthly thread]

Robert Miles1 Nov 2022 23:23 UTC
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[Question] Which Is­sues in Con­cep­tual Align­ment have been For­mal­ised or Ob­served (or not)?

ojorgensen1 Nov 2022 22:32 UTC
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AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 4/​6: Bioweapons and Philos­o­phy of Modification

PashaKamyshev1 Nov 2022 20:50 UTC
7 points
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Open & Wel­come Thread—Novem­ber 2022

MondSemmel1 Nov 2022 18:47 UTC
14 points
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Mildly Against Donor Lotteries

jefftk1 Nov 2022 18:10 UTC
10 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-01

jasoncrawford1 Nov 2022 17:48 UTC
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(rootsofprogress.org)

On the cor­re­spon­dence be­tween AI-mis­al­ign­ment and cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance us­ing a be­hav­ioral eco­nomics model

Stijn Bruers1 Nov 2022 17:39 UTC
4 points
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Threat Model Liter­a­ture Review

1 Nov 2022 11:03 UTC
79 points
4 comments25 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing AI X-risk

1 Nov 2022 11:03 UTC
127 points
24 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Au­dit­ing games for high-level interpretability

Paul Colognese1 Nov 2022 10:44 UTC
33 points
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Re­mem­ber to trans­late your thoughts back again

brook1 Nov 2022 8:49 UTC
25 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Con­ver­sa­tions on Al­co­hol Consumption

Annapurna1 Nov 2022 5:09 UTC
20 points
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ML Safety Schol­ars Sum­mer 2022 Retrospective

TW1231 Nov 2022 3:09 UTC
29 points
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EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (24 − 30th Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams1 Nov 2022 2:58 UTC
13 points
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Cau­tion when in­ter­pret­ing Deep­mind’s In-con­text RL paper

Sam Marks1 Nov 2022 2:42 UTC
106 points
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What sorts of sys­tems can be de­cep­tive?

Andrei Alexandru31 Oct 2022 22:00 UTC
17 points
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“Cars and Elephants”: a hand­wavy ar­gu­ment/​anal­ogy against mechanis­tic interpretability

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)31 Oct 2022 21:26 UTC
51 points
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Su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI is nec­es­sary for an amaz­ing fu­ture, but far from sufficient

So8res31 Oct 2022 21:16 UTC
134 points
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San­ity-check­ing in an age of hyperbole

Ciprian Elliu Ivanof31 Oct 2022 20:04 UTC
2 points
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Why Aren’t There More Schel­ling Holi­days?

johnswentworth31 Oct 2022 19:31 UTC
63 points
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The cir­cu­lar prob­lem of epistemic irresponsibility

Roman Leventov31 Oct 2022 17:23 UTC
5 points
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AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 3/​6: Anti-econ­omy and Sig­nal Pollution

PashaKamyshev31 Oct 2022 17:03 UTC
7 points
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